The unhinged hostility to Donald Trump’s successful crime crackdown in Washington, DC, puts Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters. What on earth are they thinking?
Law and order is quite literally an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, but 81% of Americans of all political persuasions say crime is a “major problem,” according to a new AP-NORC poll released last week.
The other 19% must be either criminals or blue city politicians — or both.
The president’s approval rating has shot up from 40% in July to 45%, likely as a result of his deployment of the National Guard to DC and his promise to replicate the model in crime-ridden cities from Chicago to Baltimore and New York.
In DC, the crime rate has plummeted across the board, with violent crime down 30% since federal troops were deployed on Aug. 7, according to the White House.
The Metropolitan Police Department is even more bullish, citing a 40% drop in violent crime over the same period last year. That includes carjacking, which dropped a staggering 82%.
Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted new crime statistics for DC on Sunday, boasting of 1,528 arrests, including 156 illegal guns seized.
“This includes two arrests for threats against law enforcement, an arrest for assault on federal officers with threats to kill President Trump, and an illegal alien MS-13 gang member,” she said.
Nearly half of the arrests have been of illegal migrant criminals, including violent felons convicted of rape, child molestation, assault, and robbery with a deadly weapon.
DC residents, most of whom are black, are expressing relief at being able to live without fear of being robbed or assaulted.
Yet Democrat shills are all over CNN and MSNBC calling Trump a “dictator,” and saying his crackdown on “so-called crime” is racist, and a “military occupation.”
Bondi has even had to fire two of her own — lefty DOJ employees who have hurled abuse, and a sandwich, at federal officers who are bringing order to DC.
Elizabeth Baxter was the latest lefty DOJ paralegal to disgrace herself by flipping the bird at the National Guard and boasting about it to a security guard when she arrived at work at the DOJ’s “4CON” building, while recreating her obscene hand gestures and words, “F–k the National Guard,” which were caught on a surveillance camera and led to her ouster.
Baxter joined the unemployment line alongside her fellow paralegal Sean Charles Dunn, who was so enraged about Trump cleaning up the city he lives in that he allegedly threw a Subway sandwich at a Border Protection officer and has been charged with assault.
The hostility runs deep in a party that has made defunding police an article of faith.
Setting a ‘trap’
During a three-hour Cabinet meeting last week, the president trolled his political opponents about the “trap” they’ve landed themselves in when it comes to public safety.
“I think it’s going to be a big, big subject for the midterms, and I think the Republicans are going to do really well,” he said. “This Democrat consultant said, ‘He’s put them in a trap again,’ because these are all traps, you know, 80:20 [issues]. They’re almost a hundred to nothing.”
He then vowed to expand the model to other blue cities like Chicago and Baltimore, which he called a “hellhole. In New York it’s out of control [but] Chicago is the worse.”
“I hope that Illinois, I hope that New York, I hope that California, I hope they call me and they say, ‘I’d love to have you come in and help us out. I will be a totally different person with them,” he said.
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has seen the writing on the wall, and instead of the humiliation of Trump’s troops doing what he should have done long ago, he’s launched his own crime crackdown.
That would be the ideal situation, if Democrat governors and mayors would only crack down on crime themselves, instead of staging a political war with Trump that they are destined to lose.
When asked by a reporter if he would consider sending the National Guard into red cities that are “also seeing high crime,” Trump replied: “Sure, but there aren’t that many of them. If you look at the top 25 cities for crime, just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats.”
Cue apoplexy from MSNBC, but he’s spot on.
If anything, he understated the problem, judging by a 2022 report by the Heritage Foundation titled “The Blue City Murder Problem,” which found that 27 of the top 30 cities with the highest homicide rates were run by Democrats.
The authors cite Democrat criminal justice “reforms” such as defunding the police, ending cash bail, refusing to prosecute misdemeanors (as New York’s far left mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has promised to do), letting thousands of convicted felons out of prison early and slashing the prison population, as being among the most obvious contributors to escalating violent crime problems in blue cities.
The decriminalization of pot and public urination has turbocharged the sense of chaos and disorder in cities like New York and led to a feeling of lawlessness that encourages crime. It is reverse Broken Windows.
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Mamdani now plans to pour fuel on the fire with his policy to make New York a double sanctuary city for illegal aliens and transgenderism, mirroring the catastrophic soft-on-crime policies of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
New York is bad enough as a sanctuary city, but Mamdani wants to make it worse.
He wants to ban ICE from removing violent criminals and predators, and he wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to create more “LGBTQIA+ Liaisons” in schools to brainwash more kids that they are trapped in the body of the opposite sex. He also wants to codify transgender guidelines to force girls to share bathrooms with biological males.
What NYC wants
Mamdani is on the wrong side of history and recklessly exploiting a tinderbox social issue for base political profit.
The “transing the kids” fad is over, yet he’s trying to breathe new life into it.
A majority of states now bans “gender affirming care” for minors, recognizing what a catastrophe it has been. The Supreme Court has upheld the bans, detransitioners are suing gender clinics, sports associations are ruling that biological males cannot compete against women.
It’s over, and the imperative now is to help provide appropriate mental health services to troubled children that don’t place them on the path to hormones and surgical mutilation.
Mamdani’s recipe for New Yorkers is not what we want, so we’d better make sure in November to vote like our lives depend on it — because they do.
Sisters and judgers
Lucky for her, embattled Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is having her legal action being decided by a judge who is her sorority sister. If that’s not a conflict of interest, nothing is.
President Trump fired Cook “for cause” after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte accused her of multiple instances of mortgage fraud, but she is refusing to clear her desk.
Delta Sigma Theta, the historically black sorority to which both Cook and DC District Judge Jia Cobb belong, fosters lifelong sisterhood and support. To underline that bond, the sorority’s “international president” Cheryl Turner issued a statement titled “Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated Stands with Dr. Lisa D. Cook.”
Despite the glaring ethical issues, it’s unlikely that Cobb will be removed from the case because her boss, the chief judge, is none other than Trump-hating meddler James Boasberg.
